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This panel will feature Denise Ross (US Chief Data Scientist) and Rob
Santos (Director, US Census), moderated by Claire Bowen (Urban Institute)!
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*Friday, April 28, 2023 | 12 - 1 pm ET / 9 - 10 am PT*
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Join us for another insightful webinar on the topic of leadership in the
field of statistics and data science.  The focus of this webinar is on
statistics leadership in government.  Hear from two of the leading
statisticians strategizing about the future of statistics in government.

The speakers for this session are *Denice Ross* who is currently the U.S.
Chief Data Scientist, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
and *Robert L. Santos* the Director of the United States Bureau of the
Census. Our two distinguished panelists will share their leadership
journeys and insights in a discussion moderated by Dr. *Clare Bowen* of the
Urban Institute.

Panelists

*Denice Ross*, U.S. Chief Data Scientist, White House Office of Science and
Technology Policy

*Robert L. Santos*, Director, U.S. Census Bureau

Moderator

*Claire Bowen,* The Urban Institute
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The COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee
of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in
Statistics and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The
purpose of the webinar series is to promote leadership skills for members
of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series
features conversations with leaders throughout the discipline, including
leaders from major academic and government institutions, and companies.
Invited speakers share their leadership stories and answer questions about
their experiences. Each webinar is moderated by a member of the COPSS
Emerging Leaders in Statistics program.

Organizing Committee

*Natalie Dean* (Chair), Emory University, COPSS Leadership Academy
*Claire Bowen*, Urban Institute, COPSS Leadership Academy
*Amita Manatunga*, Emory University, COPSS
*Jim Rosenberger*, NISS
*David S. Matteson, *NISS, Cornell University
*Mary Ryan*, Yale University
*Lingzhou Xue*, Penn State, COPSS Leadership Academy, NISS
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*About the Panelists*

*Denice Ross* serves as the U.S. Chief Data Scientist in the White House
Office of Science and Technology Policy.  Previously, she was a Senior
Fellow at the National Conference on Citizenship, where she led a
multidisciplinary group of stakeholders to coordinate support for a high
quality census despite a pandemic and unprecedented political pressure. She
also co-authored the data series "Pandemic to Prosperity," with a special
focus on Southern states and their path to an equitable recovery. She was a
Fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, providing
startup support for the new State Chief Data Officer Network. At New
America, she studied climate security and the power of networks to advance
progress on big challenges.  As a Presidential Innovation Fellow in the
Obama administration, she co-founded the White House Police Data Initiative
to increase transparency and accountability and worked with the Department
of Energy on crowdsourcing private-sector data to improve community
resilience in disaster-impacted areas. Earlier, she served as Director of
Enterprise Information for the City of New Orleans, where she established
their open data initiative, now recognized as one of the most successful in
the country.

*Robert L. Santos *is the 26th director of the U.S. Census Bureau. He was
sworn in on January 5, 2022. Santos’ career spans more than 40 years in
survey research, statistical design and analysis, and executive-level
management. He previously served for 15 years as vice president and chief
methodologist at the Urban Institute and directed its Statistical Methods
Group. He was executive vice president and partner of NuStats, a social
science research firm in Austin, Texas.  Santos has held leadership
positions in the nation’s top survey research organizations, including the
National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, where
he served as vice president of statistics and methodology and director of
survey operations; the Institute for Social Research at the University of
Michigan, as director of survey operations; and Temple University’s
Institute for Survey Research, as senior study director and sampling
statistician.  Santos specializes in quantitative and qualitative research
design, including program evaluation, needs assessments, survey methodology
and survey operations. He also has expertise in demographic and
administrative data, decennial censuses, social policy research and equity
issues in research.  Santos served as the 2021 president of the American
Statistical Association (ASA) and is an ASA Fellow and recipient of the ASA
Founder’s Award in 2006. He was the 2014 president of the American
Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) and received the 2021 AAPOR
Award for Exceptionally Distinguished Achievement. Santos is also an
elected member to the International Statistical Institute, and he served
from 2017 to 2020 as a member of the Board of Scientific Counselors for the
National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention. He was a longtime member of the editorial board of Public
Opinion Quarterly.  Santos was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. He
graduated from high school at Holy Cross of San Antonio. He earned a B.A.
in mathematics from Trinity University in San Antonio and an M.A. in
statistics from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
  *About the Moderator*
*Claire McKay Bowen *is a principal research associate in the Center on
Labor, Human Services, and Population and leads the Statistical Methods
Group at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on developing and
assessing the quality of differentially private data synthesis methods and
science communication. In 2021, the Committee of Presidents of Statistical
Societies identified her as an emerging leader in statistics for her
technical contributions and leadership to statistics and the field of data
privacy and confidentiality. She is also a member of the Census Scientific
Advisory Committee and the Differential Privacy Working Group, an advisory
board member of the Future of Privacy Forums, and an adjunct professor at
Stonehill College.

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Jun Li
Professor of Statistics
University of California, Riverside
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